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YOU DAMNED BEAN COUNTING WANKERZ
Part 77486 on Bricklink - it comes in some Dots set or other. A little pack of 36 tiles purporting to contain the entire alphabet plus ten of the more commonly used letters in the English language.
A filthy lie - they left out the W and expect us to use upside-down M's. Goddamn cheap bastards. It's all the more galling because if they wanted to save some money on printing costs, an upside-down W makes a more acceptable M than the upside-down M does a W.
I can not, will not, accept this as a proper W. Look at it! The outside legs on a W go out, not straight up. I got four of these little packs and will never be able to use them to spell anything with a W in it. Looking at that malformed W eats at me, like a rogue apostrophe inserted into the possessive "its".
But as long as we're cheaping out here, why not eliminate the Z or N? After all, you can just turn the other one on its side. C's and U's are similarly interchangeable. Hell, the U could do triple-duty: an upside-down U is how I write my lowercase N's anyway. Come to think of it, the E is just as versatile: rotate it around and it becomes an M or W. We don't need A's if an upside-down V is close enough, right? Turn the P over and it makes a lowercase D.
There, Lego. I just saved your company millions. Your existing bean counters lack vision, or fortitude, or both. If corner-cutting is your thing, let me blow your mind. No more of this half-assery. Clearly you need me, and I'm willing to relocate to Denmark - let's talk.
YOU DAMNED BEAN COUNTING WANKERZ
Part 77486 on Bricklink - it comes in some Dots set or other. A little pack of 36 tiles purporting to contain the entire alphabet plus ten of the more commonly used letters in the English language.
A filthy lie - they left out the W and expect us to use upside-down M's. Goddamn cheap bastards. It's all the more galling because if they wanted to save some money on printing costs, an upside-down W makes a more acceptable M than the upside-down M does a W.
I can not, will not, accept this as a proper W. Look at it! The outside legs on a W go out, not straight up. I got four of these little packs and will never be able to use them to spell anything with a W in it. Looking at that malformed W eats at me, like a rogue apostrophe inserted into the possessive "its".
But as long as we're cheaping out here, why not eliminate the Z or N? After all, you can just turn the other one on its side. C's and U's are similarly interchangeable. Hell, the U could do triple-duty: an upside-down U is how I write my lowercase N's anyway. Come to think of it, the E is just as versatile: rotate it around and it becomes an M or W. We don't need A's if an upside-down V is close enough, right? Turn the P over and it makes a lowercase D.
There, Lego. I just saved your company millions. Your existing bean counters lack vision, or fortitude, or both. If corner-cutting is your thing, let me blow your mind. No more of this half-assery. Clearly you need me, and I'm willing to relocate to Denmark - let's talk.